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Topics The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a consultation on whether to make changes to the law around land and digital infrastructure. It covers the legal framework for building and maintaining the structure on private and public land, influencing the placing of phone masts and broadband cabinets, and is aimed at providing more homes with improved internet and mobile coverage. The consultation is exploring whether changes to the UK’s Electronic Communications Code, last reformed in 2017, are needed to encourage faster and more collaborative negotiation...

Mobile firms to tackle rural 'not spots' by sharing more than 200 masts The companies are planning to provide 4G coverage to 95pc of the UK by 2026 27 January 2021 • 10:29am Nearly 300,000 rural homes and businesses plagued by "not spots" are in line for a better mobile phone signal as telecoms giants begin building more than 200 new masts.  Vodafone, O2 and Three are rolling out the first stage of the Shared Rural Network (SRN), an attempt to banish the patchy signal and black spots that plague rural communities. It aims to increase 4G coverage from all operators to 90pc of the UK's lan...

Date Time UK Government reviews law on access to land for digital infrastructure A government consultation has been launched on whether to make changes to the law around digital infrastructure, such as phone masts and broadband cabinets, with a view to providing more homes with improved internet and mobile coverage. Announced by Digital Minister Matt Warman, the consultation will review the legal framework for building and maintaining these structures on private and public land. While progress has been made since the UK’s Electronic Communications Code was reformed in 2017, stakeholders hav...

What do we want? Better coverage! How do we want it? Without actual infrastructure Matthew Hughes Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 16:25 UTC Share Copy The UK government is looking to reform the laws governing how communications equipment is deployed and managed, in an effort to speed up the rollout of gigabit-capable connections. A new consultation, opened today by Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman, will look at three problem areas: issues related to obtaining and exercising “code agreements,” which grant rights to maintain and deploy hardware on land belonging to...

The Government has launched a consultation on whether to make changes to land access laws around the building of phone masts and broadband cabinets, to help speed up the rollout of better mobile and internet coverage. Digital minister Matt Warman said the review would look at the legal framework around the building and maintaining of digital infrastructure on private and public land. It follows reports from stakeholders that negotiations on such issues do not always run smoothly and can take a long time to complete, the Government said, which it suggested was holding back homes and businesses...